Safety-hook for suspending drapery or analogous purposes.



r 3 3- PATENTBD JAN. 13, 1903.

M. E. HIGGINS.

SAFETY HOOK FOR SUSPENDING DRAPBRY OR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES.

' APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19,.19o2. 7

N0 MODEL.

lifargays UNITED STATES PATE T FFICE.

MARY ELENOR IIIGGINS,.OF PORT HURON, MICHIGAN.

SAFETY-HOOK FOR SUSPENDING DRAPERYOR ANALOGOUS PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,203, dated January13, 1903.

Application filed March 19, 1902- To 00 whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, MARY ELENOR HIGGINS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair and State ofMichigan, have invented a new and useful Safety-Hook for SuspendingDrapery or Analogous Purposes, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has for itsobject the production of a fastener adapted tobe employed in suspending various fabrics and garments and which mayalso be employed for suspending goods in display-windows and for theva-v rious purposes for which such devices are usually employed.

The device is constructed of a single piece of wire, and consists of aback or body 'portion 5, with one end bent outwardly into a guard in theform of a double-looped hook at 6, and thence coiled around the bar 5,as at 7, thence turned downward into a pin, as in Fig. 1, or into ahook, as in Fig. 3, or upward into a hook, as in Fig. 2.

When the device is formed with a hook, as in Figs. 1 and 3, the saidhook portion is pref-' erably bent, as clearly shown in the saidfigures, so that it will more readily engage the articles to besuspended therefrom. In Fig. 3 the curved or bent portion of the hook 9is held in contact with the coil 7 upon the bar or shank 5, so that itshall be adapted to hold and to retain securely by frictional contactbetween said hook and coil, as at the point 12, any substance that maybe inserted between said hook and coil, such as a display or prize cardor any other substance the nature of which renders it readily insertiblebetween Serial No. 98,992. (No model.)

said hook and coil. The remaining portion of the strip of wire will beturned downward, as at 8, and will be long enough to adapt it to engagethe loop 6 and be guarded thereby. At the point where the body portion 5and holding portion 8 unite the wire may be formed into a coil 10 toincrease the force of the spring action, and a similar coil may beformed at 11 between turns 7 and the hook 9, as in Fig. 3, if preferred,for the same purpose.

The order of arrangement might be reversed-that is to say, the pin 8might be turned from the coiled portion 7 and the pin or hook 9 turnedfrom the body portion 5- but this would be a more minor modification,which would not affect the action or the results produced.

This makes a very simple, cheap, and convenient article for use insuspending goods in display-windows or curtains, portieres, or otherdraperies and for the various purposes for which devices of this classare usually employed.

In Figs. 2 and 3 the guard-loop 6 is shown somewhat distendedvertically, so as to increase the width of the guard to increase theprotection to the point of the pin 8.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. As anew article of manufacture, a drapery-suspension hook comprising a baror body portion doubled upon itself and bent to form a catch and havinga pin extending from its end'opposite to said catch and adapted toengage the latter, a portion of the bodywire extending from the catchbeing coiled upon the body-bar and extended from the latter to form asupporting member, substantially as set forth.

end and a catch at its opposite end, a coil snr- I my own I have heretoaffixed my signature in rounding the said bar 01' body, and a curvedsupporting member, spring-pressed against said coil, the entire devicebeing formed from 5 a single piece of Wire, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as she presence of twoWitnesses.

MARY ELENOR HIGGINS.

Witnesses:

T. P. B01012, MAE NEWELL.

